"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"

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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."

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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."

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"The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists."

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"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."

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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."

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"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."

"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."

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